You could try this mod to re-create the surface:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/regenerate-terrain


Nice mod, thanks.
I really like Vulcanus, which is why my friend told me about the alternate start so we can skip the Nauvis part, but I like starting on Nauvis and seeing how quickly I can get ...

As a possible aide, you can use CTRL+F (default keybind) to search the map. This gives you an easy way to find, for example, any coal patches you might have that are on the map but you just missed them.


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Thankyou so much! I didn't know CTRL+F works on the map. Now I'm ...

Hey, that gives me hope! Thanks.
I thought the ore patches were few and far between, but didn't know that the lava lakes overwrite the ore patches!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PMWUAahQDGYQFrBz9TVy79kj9q7GruIf/view?usp=sharing
Here's a link to the savegame

I've searched far and wide, apart from the starting coal and tungsten there's none. I should have found some by now.
I did wonder if the mod that recolours coal on vulcanus would ...

thanks yeah, blueprints would be nice. I hope someone (not me!) Makes a nice fusion power blueprint book, and in an ideal world it'd be compatible with Nilaus's city blocks as I love how neat they are.

I tried to find a topic about this, couldn't.

I like it but I gotta confess, I cheat just to get to the direct fusion to energy converter. Can't find any lets plays on youtube about it either. Has anyone made any blueprints to make this easier? Would appreciate advice on a really fun mod, solar ...

bormand wrote: Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:55 pm Just enable checkbox above ("Personal logistics and auto-trash") and it should work.

I wanted to say thanks. Never noticed this before and I didn't even know it was a thing.

thanks to Pavel in a game, he said it's in the f4 menu under "detailed info." I unchecked it.

i'm not sure what to call it and f4 brings up a debug menu.

I've tried to slipstream drivers in before. Never got any sucess with NT lite.
I'm going to install linux on it, and hope I can update the firmware from there.

That actually worked! I got into a boot menu, selected the windows XP installer, said it was going to load 615mb, about 144mb the screen went blank. I wish I had a CRT (I did, two years ago, but it broke) as I suspect it was going to another resolution but I haven't got further.

I have a USB ...

Hey, so this is off topic but I'm hoping you guys might have experience with this.

I've got an old, 2002 era computer I'm building (IDE and SATA connectors) and I've got an IDE and SATA hard drive, it picks up the IDE but not the SATA. Alas, I don't have any IDE optical drive, and it won't pick up ...

I did think about it, barrels are fun, but IRL for long distances pipelines require less logistics. Just have a pipe, pumps every certain distance, and monitor for pressure drops.

But in game? pipelines are still a bit confusing. I do put pumps in them at random, never really got a good feel ...

I did yeah, and I was interested in the push you, pull me boat. This is an area of physics that doesn't make sense to me.

It's interesting.

It feels like they played a lot of factorio, and streamlined it.
1: You get construction bots right from the start. Infact, the only way you build is via your bots.
2: Belts hold one item at a time. No more belt balancing
3: Simplified fluid physics. Water, oil, hydrogen gas ...

https://youtu.be/jyQwgBAaBag

The treadmill prototype I found most interesting. It was going at speed, the wheels turn the propeller, which propels it along and despite the mechical losses it accelerates, going faster than the treadmill.

I never quite understoof how a yacht can tack into the wind ...

I did think about it, barrels are fun, but IRL for long distances pipelines require less logistics. Just have a pipe, pumps every certain distance, and monitor for pressure drops.

But in game? pipelines are still a bit confusing. I do put pumps in them at random, never really got a good feel of "I ...

would be interesting to see if it can be done, like "running doom on an X".

Anyone remember the transmeta CPU's? I was told theyw eren't x86, but emulated x86 so windows and linux could be run on it. A friend had a laptop with a 1ghz chip in, he reckoned it was equivalent to a 500mhz pentium 3 ...

I use barrels for light oil to be flown into remote walls for the flamethrowers.

I try to have a factory to make barrels and have the inserter stop when it reaches a certain limit, but I end up with far more barrels then what there should be. Why is that, are the barrels not counted when in flight?

Nice base, only just found it now. I'm quite happy with my intermediates, but what I'd really like is bot based science production. You just use the assmblers for that?
I'd like to see a beaconed approach.